“Facebook is offering the images to advertisers at no additional cost, and each time a Facebook advertiser licenses a Shutterstock image the Shutterstock artist will earn a royalty.”

Shutterstock will be integrated directly into the Facebook ad creation tool, where advertisers will be able to test multiple images—including their own photos, visuals from their previous ads, and professional stock images from Shutterstock—across Facebook’s mobile and desktop advertising products.

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I’m so glad they changed these guidelines. I had heard nightmare stories of people having their fan pages shut down because of a technicality with these rules. Yet, you see people breaking them every single day. They don’t make it easy to keep up with their changes either. Thanks for sharing Laura!

I’m so glad they changed these guidelines. I had heard nightmare stories of people having their fan pages shut down because of a technicality with these rules. Yet, you see people breaking them every single day. They don’t make it easy to keep up with their changes either. Thanks for sharing Laura!

Tonia – I did hear rumors that they loosened the rules because so many people were breaking them. Don’t know whether that’s true. Either way, it makes it frustrating for those of us who try to follow the rules. I’m glad they are trying to make some beneficial improvements, however.

Tonia – I did hear rumors that they loosened the rules because so many people were breaking them. Don’t know whether that’s true. Either way, it makes it frustrating for those of us who try to follow the rules. I’m glad they are trying to make some beneficial improvements, however.